I agree wholeheartedly. I came to similar conclusions after watching the Tod Browning/Bela Lugosi Dracula as a teenager. Having read how wonderful it was, I found myself disappointed at how cheesy, predictable and campy it was.
When I sat down and thought about it afterwards, though, I realised that after having seen so many riffs on the film beforehand, especially parodies, not only was almost everything in the film familiar, but it was almost impossible to take it seriously.
I've noticed this more and more as I've grown older, and films I loved in my youth only seem to work as camp to modern eyes after having had their ideas and images recycled endlessly.
I disagree. If the rules are getting in the way of the game you want to play, you're using the wrong rules. Agreeing to freeform the game or using a cut-down set of the rules is still deciding on a set of rules to use. Arbitrarily fudging stuff can be a fast-track to disagreement and resentment.
A friend of mine recently resigned from the police for this reason. Apparently he had arrest quotas to be met, leading to him being effectively forced to arrest some people who he thought would be better served with a warning. Everyone nicked in this way had their DNA put on record, even though in a lot of cases there was no intent to prosecute. In the end he couldn't stomach the cynicism beheind this policy and resigned on principle, for which I salute him.
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I use Inkscape for this, and I'm pretty happy with it. It's not as feature-rich as recent versions of Corel Draw, for example, but it does what I need, and it's free.
Not all of them. We use Symantec's IDS and AV/anti-spam appliances, both of which are just i386 linux boxes with some proprietary software and a candy-coated front-end. Just because their marketing folk badmouth open source software doesn't mean that their technical staff don't see the advantages.
Also, there has yet to be a good serious movie made around the Cthulhu mythos yet.
Maybe you'll discount it as a movie, as it was made for Canadian TV, but the best Lovecraft adaptation I've seen by far is Out of Mind. It's not based on any single one of his stories, but blends elements of a few of them along with excerpts from his letters. In my opinion, it's the closest thing to the spirit of Lovecraft's stories that I've seen on film.
If you want to give it a shot, it's available on DVD along with a few shorts as the third volume of the H. P. Lovecraft Collection.
Alternatively, it could be derived from the Arabic for a pregnant camel. As far as I know, it's one of those words whose origin is lost in the mists of time.
This is because common psychotherapy is built on unreasonable assumptions and lies. Those of us blessed with a bit of intelligence see right through it.
Even as a non-root linux user you can fuck up a system by running a malicious script...
I'm intrigued. While I've only given it a few minutes' thought, I haven't managed to come up with a way that an unprivileged Linux user can hose an entire system (well, outside of their own data) with a malicious script. Could you let me know what I'm missing here? Thanks.
"Existing anti-spam software filters out spam whereas ours puts up a firewall, stopping all email traffic and only allowing real mail through"
Slashdotting has made it impossible to check for more meaning in the article, so can anyone tell me what the difference is supposed to be here. How does stopping mail and then allowing non-spam through differer from a spam filter? It sounds like pretty much what the qmail/spamassassin boxes I've set up as mail gateways do.
The thing that bugs me about that is that his ID would show his name as "E. Kennedy" as his Ted is short for Edward. Surely even with the collision of this very common name there should have been no issue.
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I agree wholeheartedly. I came to similar conclusions after watching the Tod Browning/Bela Lugosi Dracula as a teenager. Having read how wonderful it was, I found myself disappointed at how cheesy, predictable and campy it was.
When I sat down and thought about it afterwards, though, I realised that after having seen so many riffs on the film beforehand, especially parodies, not only was almost everything in the film familiar, but it was almost impossible to take it seriously.
I've noticed this more and more as I've grown older, and films I loved in my youth only seem to work as camp to modern eyes after having had their ideas and images recycled endlessly.
Oh, they're aware. How do you think most of them got to be blind?
A rare exception makes the fact that there's a rule more obvious. Without it, you may not even notice that there's a pattern there.
I disagree. If the rules are getting in the way of the game you want to play, you're using the wrong rules. Agreeing to freeform the game or using a cut-down set of the rules is still deciding on a set of rules to use. Arbitrarily fudging stuff can be a fast-track to disagreement and resentment.
A friend of mine recently resigned from the police for this reason. Apparently he had arrest quotas to be met, leading to him being effectively forced to arrest some people who he thought would be better served with a warning. Everyone nicked in this way had their DNA put on record, even though in a lot of cases there was no intent to prosecute. In the end he couldn't stomach the cynicism beheind this policy and resigned on principle, for which I salute him.
I use Inkscape for this, and I'm pretty happy with it. It's not as feature-rich as recent versions of Corel Draw, for example, but it does what I need, and it's free.
Have you ever been to Scotland? It sounds like a conservative estimate to me!
Anyway, am I the only one who'd balk at taking a space flight from Scotland operated by a company that can barely run a train service out of there?
We're having a civilised discussion here. There's no need to go around mooning people! :)
That second one looks disturbingly like the goatse.cx guy.
Implicitly, in the bit where it says "Get Help with Viruses and Spyware".
I thought that was the point. :)
They are all negative.
Not all of them. We use Symantec's IDS and AV/anti-spam appliances, both of which are just i386 linux boxes with some proprietary software and a candy-coated front-end. Just because their marketing folk badmouth open source software doesn't mean that their technical staff don't see the advantages.
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I mean, have you seen the rack on Cowboy Neal?
Still, version 23 will have a special mode that will let you see the fnords.
Probably it'd be a threat today if the Windows version supported a containing window
Like this?
Yeah, because everyone knows you're only entitled to use Linux free if you promise not to use Windows on your school's network.
What? That only happens the other way around? Sorry for the confusion.
Also, there has yet to be a good serious movie made around the Cthulhu mythos yet.
Maybe you'll discount it as a movie, as it was made for Canadian TV, but the best Lovecraft adaptation I've seen by far is Out of Mind. It's not based on any single one of his stories, but blends elements of a few of them along with excerpts from his letters. In my opinion, it's the closest thing to the spirit of Lovecraft's stories that I've seen on film.
If you want to give it a shot, it's available on DVD along with a few shorts as the third volume of the H. P. Lovecraft Collection.
s/hard/wet/
I think you misheard. The grandparent was proposing changing section, not sex.
Alternatively, it could be derived from the Arabic for a pregnant camel. As far as I know, it's one of those words whose origin is lost in the mists of time.
This is because common psychotherapy is built on unreasonable assumptions and lies. Those of us blessed with a bit of intelligence see right through it.
L. Ron? Is that you?
I can pee standing AND have multiple orgasms!
You're a woman who doesn't mind the feeling of pee trickling down your legs?
Even as a non-root linux user you can fuck up a system by running a malicious script...
I'm intrigued. While I've only given it a few minutes' thought, I haven't managed to come up with a way that an unprivileged Linux user can hose an entire system (well, outside of their own data) with a malicious script. Could you let me know what I'm missing here? Thanks.
"Existing anti-spam software filters out spam whereas ours puts up a firewall, stopping all email traffic and only allowing real mail through"
Slashdotting has made it impossible to check for more meaning in the article, so can anyone tell me what the difference is supposed to be here. How does stopping mail and then allowing non-spam through differer from a spam filter? It sounds like pretty much what the qmail/spamassassin boxes I've set up as mail gateways do.
Only way for The Sims to become playable for us Real Men, would be to include ninjas and pirates...
Boy, do I know the game for you.
Gravity's Rainbow is the hardest book in modern literature.
I'd hold off on that judgement until you've looked at Finnegans Wake. At least Gravity's Rainbow is written in a recognisable human language!
The thing that bugs me about that is that his ID would show his name as "E. Kennedy" as his Ted is short for Edward. Surely even with the collision of this very common name there should have been no issue.